A. a long, thick myelinated fiber
B. a long, thin myelinated fiber
C. a short, thick myelinated fiber
D. a short, thin myelinated fiber
Related Mcqs:
- The action potential ‘jumps’ along an axon. The gaps in a myelinated axon that the action potential ‘jumps’ to are called the ____________?
A. Broca’s area
B. Nodes of Ranvier
C. terminal buttons
D. Wernicke’s area - The major factors involved in changing resting membrane potential to active membrane potential include:
A. Na+ and K+ ion movement
B. Membrane potential
C. Reversal of charges
D. All of the above - Two kinds of change that occur to the cell body of a neuron during an action potential are ___________?
A. electrical and chemical
B. spontaneous and stimulated
C. hormonal and mechanical
D. chemical and hormonal - The action potential cannot jump from one neuron to the next in line, rather the message is transmitted across snaps in the form of chemical messenger called:
A. Neurotransmitters
B. Neuro relaxers
C. Neuro messengers
D. Synaptic transmitters - An action potential actually occurs because:
A. the interior of the nerve cell becomes positive
B. the interior of the nerve cell becomes negative
C. potassium ions enter the nerve cell
D. sodium ions level the nerve cell - The speed that neural impulses travel is _____________?
A. 3 to 200 miles an hour
B. the speed of light
C. 600 miles an hour
D. 200 miles a second - If the conditioned stimulus is presented many times without reinforcement, we can expect:
A. an increase in stimulus generalization
B. the strength of the UR to increase
C. an increase in response generalization
D. extinction to occur - You make an appointment to see a therapist and, as you are waiting, you notice that a large number of books on the therapist’s shelves deal with the work of Aaron Beck. You might expect that this therapist will
A. use counterconditioning to reverse maladaptive behaviors
B. help you discover the underlying cause of your aggressive behavior
C. help you recognize and change negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs
D. provide a supportive emotional environment while allowing you to determine the pace and direction of your therapy - The problems of observers seeing only what they expect to see is called:
A. observer bias
B. the experimenter effect
C. the effects of the observer
D. the halo effect - If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 6 months of age you should expect to find that:
A. adults are capable of producing more phonemes than infants are
B. adults and infants both use the same number of phenomes
C. infants produce more phonemes than adults do
D. adults and infants both use the same number of morphemes
